neendreams

Once upon a time

Melbourne based Swedish front-end developer with five years of experience, currently working at Letterbox Design Studio. Passionate about coding websites and delivering challenging projects, all whilst maintaining a high level of client satisfaction. Creating customised WordPress templates by day and working on various coding passion projects during the evenings. I also volunteer for ‘Code Like a Girl’, an organisation who inspires and supports girls interested in coding via teaching, workshops and events.

Far-away country

RMIT Art Website

With a structure built from the ground-up, the RMIT School of Art showcase site follows on from the success of previous projects for the Schools of Fashion and Architecture. It powerfully and proudly shows off the extraordinary scope of work produced by the school.

Designed by Stephen Banham at Letterbox.

Letterbox

Letterbox is a design studio based in Brunswick, Melbourne. The studio specifies in typographic projects even though it covers different areas such as identity systems, print, exhibitions, websites, lectures, books, commercials and much more.

In February 2016, the Letterbox released it’s ninth version. The front-end design was completely updated and several Javascript functions were added to simplify the user experience. The navigation was also redesigned to give a higher ranking in the studios specific areas via search engines.

The site was designed by Stephen Banham and programmed by me.The site was designed by Stephen Banham and programmed by me.

Tall Storeys

As part of an article published by Stephen Banham in the online edition of Desktop, the free game Tall Storeyswas developed where players can try their hand at matching up branding with real estate developments. Intentionally difficult to play, this game reiterates the disconnection between the graphic identities and the construction integrity of many of the new developments. There is a link to the article from the game.

Tall Storeys was developed during a 10 week front-end development course I did at General Assembly in Melbourne. All the JavaScript code and Firebase database integration was developed from the ground.

RMIT Fashion and Textiles Website

Building upon the success of the RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design website, the RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles website takes a more simplified form, showing the diverse range of activities and outcomes from its Masters Program. Two new functions were added, the ability to link videos from Vimeo and Youtube but also a new tagging system that linked the fashion projects with the relevant teacher and student. Further expansions of this site to encompass other programs are expected in 2016.

RMIT Architecture Website

This very complex web project involved the website development of a portal to showcase the extensive projects and research from the RMIT School of Architecture and Design. The biggest challenge with this project was to be able to showcase as many projects as possible for the user while still keeping the same visual preview of the projects. The site was thoroughly planned via a site map and wireframes which resulted in several solutions to enable this feature for the user. They were given the ability to access a project through the category structure in the menu and the front page slider but also via a sorted search and tag system.

It proved to be successful in raising the profile of the school, both nationally and internationally.

Rhiannon Slatter Photographer

Coinciding with the associated portfolio website, this website for renown architectural photographer Rhiannon Slatter has been purposefully built to evoke an architectural animation.

The website is using JavaScript plugins such as Infinite scroll to be able to show the beautiful photographs without having a heavy page load and Isotope’s grid system Masonry to easily showcase the different architectural categories on all devices.

The eNewsletters were built from scratch and then implemented in to email marketing programs such as MailChimp and Campaign Monitor where the client easily imported their list of email subscribers and sent the email campaign.

Cold Cargo

Cold Cargo is a transport company that offers high quality transport such as express runs and local bids with a focus on cold cargo, for both individuals and companies.

The website layout was designed after the round form and the blue colours of the already existing logo. The elements of the site were focused on being as clear as possible with a large booking form, a jQuery slideshow, strong contrasts and a easy read typeface so that the user could easily get access to the sites main purpose – to book transport.

The site was built with parallax scrolling, allowing all the content to be on the same page for easy access. It was built with WordPress as it’s CMS and designed for all devices.

Towprojects

A web resource for TOW Projects – research, curatorial and interdisciplinary arts practice. The site shows the process and outcome of projects including books, cultural events, exhibitions and public art commissions.

Designed by Stephen Banham at Letterbox, the website shows the latest projects and exhibitions made by towprojects through simple navigation and high quality images fading into one another in a slideshow. The client needed to be able to add the project information and gallery images so we built the website CMS as simple as possible through WordPress. It was also adapted for mobile phones and tablets.

AcoSense

Acosense develops and sells Acospector Acoustic Chemometer, a non-contact instrument which measures the complex fluids in the process industry and delivers an analysis previously considered too difficult or impossible to obtain. The innovative technology can measure many properties simultaneously and provides accurate results even on liquids that are opaque, viscous or give coatings.

The company demonstrated their product through lectures and meetings but they didn’t have a marketing strategy for the costumers they could’t meet face-to-face. In order to reach their whole costumer target they needed a folder and three different product sheets. Because this was a growing company, there was no change to their already existing graphic profile. Instead, the folder was carefully designed to link their old graphic profile to their new measurements and information. The folder and product sheets were printed and cut by us with a Xerox printer.

Håkan Hellström

This illustration was a part of my studies at Jönköping University, Sweden. We worked on a project where we got to draw our favorite artist in Adobe Illustrator. Because music and dancing is another passion of mine,I chose the Gothenburg based musician Håkan Hellström.

DJ Set

This illustration of a DJ-set was my introduction to Adobe Illustrator. It took me a whole month to finish and I remember sitting in front of my screen in a coffee shop at 7 in the morning, obsessing over little buttons who were the size of my fingernails. This was a part of my degree in graphic Design and Web development at Jönköping University, Sweden.

The story of my life

August 2015 – October 2015

General Assembly
Front-end development

April 2013 – Ongoing

LetterboxWordPress developer
Letterbox is a design studio. My work in here involves everything from planning websites via site maps, timelines and tutorials to managing hosting. Although my main focus is to work on web-based projects such as setting up and building new customised WordPress themes for our clients and updating already existing ones.

February 2013 – June 2013

Deakin UniversityScience and Technology
Australian History, Game Design and Painting arts

March 2012 – December 2012

MkmediaGraphic/Web designer & WordPress developer
I designed and printed graphical profiles including business cards, posters, logotypes, handouts etc. My main work was designing new websites but also programming and updating already existing ones in WordPress and Joomla.

October 2011 – Ongoing

Nina Mujdzic DesignFreelancing web designer and WordPress developer
During my studies I started my own small business in order to create a connection with clients and work on real projects. As I started working professionally, the freelancing became my hobby instead.

Lessons learned

Happily ever after

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